Indian ISPs block Vimeo, Pirate Bay and other torrent sites

Internet Service Providers (ISPs) such as Reliance and Airtel are blocking torrent sites like The Pirate Bay and websites like Vimeo following a court order pushed for by Copyright Labs, a Chennai-based firm.

MediaNama reported that Copyright Labs have secured a John Doe order preventing piracy of Tamil Films Dammu and 3. The CEO of the firm, Harish Ram, has confirmed the same to MediaNama and a copy of the order has been requested.

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Various torrents sites like thepiratebay,text and code sharing platform Pastebin, and bookmarks sharing site Xmarks have also been blocked.

However, instead of giving a proper clarification for it, the landing pages of these sites said “The site has been blocked as per instructions from the Department of Telecom”.

The blockade too, was not uniform and varied in different regions and cities. All these sites, however, are stillaccessibleon BSNL Bangalore and other ISPs.